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Scientists successfully replicate historic nuclear fusion breakthrough three times::Scientists in California make a significant step in what could one day be an important solution to the global climate crisis, driven primarily by burning fossil fuels.

    • Uranium 🟩English
      4•1 year ago

      Thermonuclear bombs are a mixture of fission AND fusion, the amount of energy required to achieve fusion requires fission to provide said energy.

      Lasers igniting fusion is a bit of a more of a stretch to create a weapon from (the lasers require 300 mega joules of energy which in turn is 2mj of energy into the reaction and 3mj energy out); it may provide context and more information for fusion as a whole but that information is relevant to both weapons and energy research, not one or the other.

        • Funkytom467English
          2•1 year ago

          Yes i immediately deleted my answer after i saw i confused the two. My bad, i wasn’t aware of NIF before.

          (Gonna go ahead and start looking it up some more…)